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Richmond, Virginia, United States

I develop and manage strategic communications planning and messaging, ongoing proactive media relations, thought leadership editorial and e-communication writing/editing, social media strategy, market research, event planning, and day-to-day client management and reporting for clients in the following industries:-Alternatively fueled vehicles: Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), ROUSH CleanTech, Superior Energy Systems, Blue Bird school buses-Lead pipe removal/replacement: BlueConduit-Loading dock equipment/Industrial doors: Rite-Hite-Foodservice packaging: Foodservice Packaging Institute

Oak Park, Illinois, United States

In this role, I am a community journalist for several publications, including the Oak Park Wednesday Journal and the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark. I cover feature stories and education.

La Grange, Illinois, United States

In this role, I am a freelance sports feature writer for the lifestyle magazine that serves the area of La Grange, Illinois and the surrounding communities. My coverage area includes Lyons Township High School and Nazareth Academy. I also occasionally write local business and personality features.

Orland Park, Illinois, United States

I was a freelance high school sports writer for Chicago Tribune Publishing, which includes the Daily Souttown newspaper covering Chicago's south suburbs, along with the Chicago Tribune newspaper

Chicago, Illinois

I developed and managed strategic communications planning and messaging, ongoing proactive media relations, thought leadership editorial writing/editing, social media platform development/engagement, trade show media outreach, and day-to-day client management and reporting for clients in the following industries:• Home improvement products: Developed strategic media relations plan to influence remodelers and homeowners to choose James Hardie Building Products’ fiber-cement siding versus vinyl siding, resulting in thought leadership placements on NY1 cable television and Fox & Friends, along with strategically crucial trade publications.• Solar energy: Integrated thought leadership editorial placements in target trade publications such as Solar Power World and Solar Builder with Twitter and LinkedIn platform development and engagement to position Fronius USA Solar Electronics Division string-type inverters as best suited to the demands of solar array installers.• Health and wellness: Developed strategic media relations plan to promote the bottom-line value of Interactive Health wellness solutions to human resources and benefits managers, resulting in placements in Bloomberg BNA, Crain’s Chicago Business, Employee Benefit News, HR Magazine and BenefitsPro.com.

Brookfield, Wisconsin

I managed ongoing media outreach to target print and online trade publications, and participated in strategic communications planning process, trade show and event coordination, social media strategy and monitoring, and day-to-day client management and reporting for clients in the following industries:• Energy management: Developed strategic media relations plans to support Schneider Electric’s 2005-09 repositioning as an energy management solutions provider; personally secured 45% of all thought leadership editorial placements and primary contributor to 1,266% increase in advertising equivalency over that span.• Consumer packaging: Positioned Videojet Technologies as the premier thought leader regarding product tracking through its array of variable-data marking/coding solutions; achieved highest editorial share of voice versus eight client competitors from 2005-08 in target publications such as Packaging Digest and Packaging World.• Alternatively fueled vehicles: Developed five 2010-12 vertical market media relations plans for the Propane Education & Research Council to establish propane as the nation’s leading alternative on- and off-road vehicle fuel; personally secured 70% of all thought leadership editorial in strategically crucial target trade publications.

Waukesha, Wisconsin

As associate editor for a nationally distributed monthly model-hobby industry trade magazine with special emphasis on the retail tier, I was primarily a print and online content producer, with a heavy focus on reporting, writing, editing and proofreading. I originated new editorial types, including celebrity interviews, company/retailer profiles and a monthly back-page column, which helped magazine achieve profitability in 2002-04 for the first time since mid-1990s. I launched and managed content for monthly e-mail newsletter distributed to circulation base that established publication reputation as industry’s up-to-the-minute news source. I was also promoted from assistant editor to associate editor.

Ma, Business/Professional Writing

Bse, Education

Secondary

Bachelor Of Science-Education, Secondary Education And Teaching